does anyone know what the poem in the beginning is?

27,000 Boer women and children died in those concentration camps..imagine the size of the white population to day in south Africa if that evil had not occured...the Anc would not be in power...there would be 20million whites,not 3million

Out calls piper

I heard that while in battle, if you heard the pipes approaching, you were going to be reinforced or going to die,, depended on which side of the line you stood.

Scots Bonnets AKA Tam O'Shanter, Thanks for posting my old Uncle Jim was there.

I recently learned that my Scottish heritage on dad's side goes back before 1700; a forbear immigrated to the US in 1710. I already knew of mom's heritage, arriving here in 1790. Granddad served with the 82nd Airborne and made all 4 jumps in WWII. So I followed in his footsteps. Maybe the heritage is why I have always loved the sound of the pipes, since long before i learned about the connections; its genetic !

This would be nice for Scarborough armed forces day.

They dont need the bass ,Give us the Pipes

want to learn these faster, more popular tunes, awesome piping gordan .

Absolutely brilliant 👌🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🤍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

When the Scottish division of the British Army in 1977, had nearly as many Regiments as the current British Army.

What is the song at the 28:00 minute mark 28:00

WOW so beautiful ❤️

Nothing finer for me

Nothing better

I will be a Piper till I die

For me being Piper for the Town of Burlington MA it's my Honor to play and give my best to the Veterans of my town every year 😔

the great highland bagpipe is probably the LESS advanced bagpipe in the world. Galician gaita is way more advanced in register, different pitches, cromatism, etc.

I was always told by my grand father if you are in uniform and see colours you salute them.

The most incredible instrument

A disgrace what the government has done to the best soldiers the world has ever seen, it is nothing but a travesty that the government has reduced the scotish regiments to one regiment

Unbelievable! And such an unassuming wee chap, despite his rare piping talent.

As a (former) member of the Toronto Scottish, I must say I'm sad to see our sister regiment folded into the Londons, but at the same time I am pleased and proud to see that they are as ready as ever. Carry On, Londons!

When I was a Tor Scot cadet in the late 70s / early 80s we had a group of cadets from the London Scottish over for a visit. That was a fun time.

Instrument of honour, identity and above all...fear.

My great grandfather was a prisoner of war on St Helena at age of 16 during the ABW. He later was chosen to compete in athletics, she told him he cant go as its ruse of the Tommies to take him away again.

As an American, I grew up going to Highland Games and listened to the pipes, I told myself that I would join a pipe band and learn the pipes, and I started learning in 2018 and joined a pipe band in October of 2021.

Legendary!

I am a Cameron ,and proud to be one .This makes me proud to be a Scot .

Great video 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Last time that Scottish regiments beating retreat was 1990

Brilliant read. One of my favourite books on the Bush War. Hope Mike is doing well wherever he is.

Very interesting, my father Cpl Alec Mitchell was a piper in the Black Watch and was asked if he would mind transferring to the Royal Scots as they were short of a piper. This he did and a couple of weeks later he heard that his former Reginement had been deployed to Korea. I think he was pleased not to have been involved.

Je ne me laisse pas de l'écouter 😮

this is fantastic a pity that a lot of regiments are no longer... they sound so awesome.. <3

When we had an army to be proud to be part of.

Scotland for Ever

Awesome to see. Back in the days where there where many regiments. Same here in Denmark. We had around 10 infantry regiments in 1977, now we have 2, the foot guards and a newly rebuildt light infantry.

Hallo ! Very nice tunes and fantastic playing! I dont know if you can help but i will try. A long time ago and i cannot say for sure when, it must have been between !976 and 1980 but even that is not sure I saw on tv pipe bands playing in a stadium. They started really slow and were getting faster til they were playing reels and they were runnig at the same time! I even dont know wich stadium this has been or in wich country this was. I know this is not a lot and its a long time ago but does anybody knows anything about it and can give me a hint whre I can find a recording or anything of that kind? Best whishes from the harz mountains Uwe

Give us back our old regiments!

Fantastic to see this !!!!

Auld good sound. The real thrill of the massed pipe bands.

If you had told me that day that in the not to distant future all the regiments on parade would be relegated to the history books l would have laughed. Those days will never come again, it's still unpalatable to this day what was done in the name of cost savings.

Minted I got Meade’s 1863 and the man got wed in he died in 1916 a general 🤔🙀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✅🤙

Minted 😮

Reconnaissance Battalion of 51st Highland Division was the 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry.

I am in my 70s. I am a mix of every country in western Europe not especially Scotland . I live in Arizona, USA all my life never went any where bagpipes were common. But when I first heard bagpipes I was enthralled and have been ever since. This program says north America has its own pipers. Too late for me to attend in person but God bless pipers wherever they are.

I was in black watch so my dad when he joined ww11 he was in barracks Perth before they go out on friday night had an inspection bye the rsm with a mirror on a pole to see if they were wearing any thing under neath

Absolute respect for the bravery shown by these men and Harold the Jock of course. From a former member of G Coy 1/51

Playing Naill chanter here and Naill pipes, the finest technique ever on pipes